Equality for All Men Before the Law 1877 Size:18x24 The Owen Cigarette Patent —

The Owen Cigarette Patent — a Study in Smoke and Industry captures the gentleman's vice at its most engineered — the holders

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Equality for All Men Before the Law 1877 Size:18x24 The Owen Cigarette Patent —Equality for All Men Before the Law 1877 a chromolithograph issued in the very year federal troops withdrew from the South, its allegorical title insisting on a principle that Reconstruction was already conceding in practice. The image carries the cruel arithmetic of its moment: a creed printed in bright ink as the law itself was being unprinted. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of